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Environment : Key Documents
May 29 2007 - Integrated Approaches to Community Awareness - Defining Regional Atlas
GeoConnections defines a regional atlas as a body of integrated information, built by multiple stakeholders, directed by the needs of a fully engaged user community, covering a user-defined, continuous piece of geography that feeds public awareness processes and that communicates issues and solutions with rich, contextual information that is relevant to many users of diverse background. (PDF: 154KB)
Apr 27 2007 - User Needs Analysis
(PPT: 4.52MB)
Apr 27 2007 - User Centered Design
(PPT: 5.58MB)
Dec 13 2006 - Geospatial Information Needs for Integrated Land/Marine Management (IL/MM): Workshop Report
The Policy Research Initiative conducts research in support of the Government of Canada's medium term agenda. Its core mandate is to advance research on emerging horizontal issues and to ensure the effective transfer of acquired knowledge to policy-makers. (PDF: 1.22MB)
Apr 27 2007 - Environment & Sustainable Development: Overview & Opportunities - GIAC Webcast
(PPT: 1.66MB)
Sep 29 2005 - CGDI Target Vision and Implementation Plan (Version 2.0)
Vision: Better knowledge for better decisions (HTML: 53KB)
Vision: Better knowledge for better decisions (PDF: 334KB)
Roadmap: Achieving the Vision of the CGDI (HTML: 96KB)
Roadmap: Achieving the Vision of the CGDI (PDF: 617KB)
Architecture: Architecture Description Version 2.0 (HTML: 114KB)
Architecture: Architecture Description Version 2.0 (PDF: 584KB)
GeoConnections : Key Documents
Aug 28 2007 - Understanding Users' Needs and User-centered Design
This guide assists organizations in understanding approaches for user-needs assessments and user-centered design, which are required for some projects that GeoConnections funds. (PDF: 1.17MB)
Jul 03 2007 - Building a Business Case for Geospatial Information Technology: A Practitioner's Guide to Financial Strategic Analysis (Executive Summary)
Geospatial Information Technology (GIT) is a complicated investment. The initial costs can be high, the tangible benefits can take several years to materialize, and the technical intricacies can be overwhelming. Often, officials do not have time to delve into the finer points of the technology before being asked to make an investment decision. The AWWA Research Foundation, GeoConnections, the Geospatial Information Technology Association, and the U.S. Federal Geospatial Data Committee funded this study to develop and document a formal methodology for preparating business cases for GIT within a water utility, as well as compatible other utility sectors, such as telecommunications, transportation agencies, and municipal-wide geospatial projects. The full report, including a workbook, is available for purchase from the GITA bookstore.
May 29 2007 - Integrated Approaches to Community Awareness - Defining Regional Atlas
GeoConnections defines a regional atlas as a body of integrated information, built by multiple stakeholders, directed by the needs of a fully engaged user community, covering a user-defined, continuous piece of geography that feeds public awareness processes and that communicates issues and solutions with rich, contextual information that is relevant to many users of diverse background. (PDF: 154KB)
Feb 06 2008 - National Parcel Data System: Feasibility Study and Business Case Final Report
Quality Performance Associates (QPA) was engaged to survey stakeholders as a prelude to delivering a Business Case addressing the need for a National Land Parcel Data System (NPDS) and, if justifiable, how such a service could feasibly be provided to meet the digital parcel data needs of users across Canada. (PDF: 432KB)
Apr 27 2007 - User Needs Analysis
(PPT: 4.52MB)
Apr 27 2007 - User Centered Design
(PPT: 5.58MB)
Dec 13 2006 - Geospatial Information Needs for Integrated Land/Marine Management (IL/MM): Workshop Report
The Policy Research Initiative conducts research in support of the Government of Canada's medium term agenda. Its core mandate is to advance research on emerging horizontal issues and to ensure the effective transfer of acquired knowledge to policy-makers. (PDF: 1.22MB)
Apr 27 2007 - Public Health Directions: Overview & Opportunities - GIAC Webcast
(PPT: 4.91MB)
Jan 24 2007 - Annual Report 2005-2006
The GeoConnections program is a Canadian initiative to link location-based information using the power of the Internet. (PDF: 2.1MB)
Feb 28 2007 - Survey of Geographic Information Decision-makers The findings from this research indicate that GeoConnections has successfully laid much of the required groundwork for promoting the CGDI as a geospatial information hub for organizations operating in the four theme areas.
Executive Summary (PDF: 99KB)
Executive Summary (DOC: 206KB)
Final Report (PDF: 9.13MB)
Apr 27 2007 - Web Feature Services, Considerations for CGDI Government Partners Version 1.0
This document reviews the WFS standard, how it has been addressed by other government organizations, and the business and technical implications in engaging WFS within the broader CGDI. This document also provides recommendations. (PDF: 163KB)
Apr 27 2007 - Environment & Sustainable Development: Overview & Opportunities - GIAC Webcast
(PPT: 1.66MB)
Apr 27 2007 - Public Safety and Security Directions - GIAC Web Cast
(PPT: 5.9MB)
Sep 29 2005 - CGDI Target Vision and Implementation Plan (Version 2.0)
Vision: Better knowledge for better decisions (HTML: 53KB)
Vision: Better knowledge for better decisions (PDF: 334KB)
Roadmap: Achieving the Vision of the CGDI (HTML: 96KB)
Roadmap: Achieving the Vision of the CGDI (PDF: 617KB)
Architecture: Architecture Description Version 2.0 (HTML: 114KB)
Architecture: Architecture Description Version 2.0 (PDF: 584KB)
Aug 30 2005 - Archiving, Management and Preservation of Geospatial Data: Summary Report and Recommendations (GeoConnections Policy Advisory Node: Working Group on Archiving and Preserving Geospatial Data) Archiving, Management and Preservation of Geospatial Data: Summary Report and Recommendations (GeoConnections Policy Advisory Node: Working Group on Archiving and Preserving Geospatial Data)
PDF Version (PDF: 199KB)
HTML Version (HTML: 73KB)
.doc Version (DOC: 127KB)
Feb 11 2005 - The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada - Guide to Best Practices The Dissemination of Government Geographic Data in Canada - Guide to Best Practice
PDF version (PDF: 616KB)
HTML version (HTML: )
Oct 05 2004 - Better knowledge means better decisions: Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure
Low resolution (PDF: 1.05MB)
High resolution (PDF: 8.10MB)
Sep 10 2004 - A Developers' Guide to the CGDI: Developing and publishing geographic information, data and associated services
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Apr 16 2004 - FGDC Standards Documents
FGDC Standard in English (PDF: 216 KB)
FGDC Standard Workbook in English (PDF: 960 KB)
Guide des normes du FGDC en français (PDF: 2.13KB) (French Only)
Biological Data Profile Workbook in English (PDF: 2.73MB)
Bilogical Data Profile in English (PDF: 270KB)
Mar 20 2003 - Intro to CGDI
Powerpoint Presentation (PPT: 7.89 MB)
Powerpoint presentation in HTML format (HTML: )
Apr 22 2003 - A POLICY FRAMEWORK AND IMPLEMENTATION SCENARIO Guiding the Development, Updating and Evaluation of GEOBASE DATA
(PPT: 122 KB)
Jan 29 2003 - Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Call for Participation in the OGC Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative (Including Annexes A-D)
Jan 17 2003 - Exploiting the Innovation Potential of Geomatics: A Geomatics Sector Response to Canada's Innovation Strategy Geomatics is an enabling technology. The geomatics sector specializes in identifying the geographical locations of physical phenomena and human activities and presenting this information to decision-makers, on desktop computers and over the Internet, in the form of intelligent maps.
HTML pages
Jul 23 2002 - Linear Referencing System Final Report
(PDF: 220 KB)
May 23 2002 - Marine User Requirements for Geospatial Data Summary 2001
(PDF: 529 KB)
Feb 21 2002 - Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure — Architecture Overview
This architecture description document is one of a trio of evolving documents that describe the CGDI: The CGDI Target Vision; The CGDI Architecture Description; and the CGDI Implementation Plan. (PDF: 677 KB)
Jan 07 2002 - Proposed Canadian Government Action Plan on Geospatial Data Policy
The objective of this report is to evaluate the recommendations of the April 2001 KPMG Study on Canadian Government Geospatial Data Policy, with a view to exploring areas of agreement - as well divergence - among Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG) members... (PDF: 454 KB)
Jan 07 2002 - CGDI Framework Data Definition
(PDF: 138 KB)
May 30 2002 - Geomatics Sector - Human Resources Study
(PDF: 9.73 MB)
Presentation of the Geomatics Sector Human Resources Study (PPT: 1.31MB)
Jan 07 2002 - Canadian Geospatial Data Policy Study
The Canadian Geospatial Data Policy Study was commissioned in order to provide empirical information on the impact of current geospatial data policies on all three levels of government (federal, provincial, municipal) and the users and distributors of the data in the business sector and in the community at large. (PDF: 136 KB)
Jan 07 2002 - CGDI Target Vision and Implementation Plan (version 1) Geospatial information today is pervasive and a core component of our society and our economy. It should not be strange to think of geospatial information as an infrastructure any more than we think of highways, telecommunications, health care, air traffic control, and policing as infrastructures that we depend on and use daily. The concept of a Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure (CGDI) is born of this recognition.
PDF version (PDF: 1.35MB)